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Selflessness in Stoicism

Selflessness in Stoicism

Steven Gambardella
Jun 08, 2025
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When you look in the mirror, are you looking at your reflection, or is the reflection looking at you? John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, 1903, detail inverted by the author (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) (Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain).

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